Sarah glared at the screen. Mr. Henderson, her history teacher, had liked her latest tweet – a sarcastic observation about the assigned reading. She could almost *feel* his judgment radiating from the glowing pixels. She imagined him, perched on his high-backed chair, probably chuckling at her, thinking she was "cute" or "feisty." She wanted to delete the entire tweet, erase her online existence. The unfairness of it all choked her. It felt like her classroom was now inescapable, the walls closing in, no matter where she went.

Emotion: bitter

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.78 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion bitter. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 bitter stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the bitter emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the bitter vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.447
striving0.238
😞0.236
aggravated0.225
soport0.223
Suppressed:
own-0.316
de-0.291
la-0.231
🤩-0.227
是非常-0.225